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Said a determinedly anonymous Ford bigwig last week: "It's a question of being ready for postwar-and it wouldn't cost us any more to be ready than not ready...
Richard Roswell Lyman, towering teetotaling, 73-year-old bigwig of the Mormons (5th-ranking member of th sect's Council of Twelve Apostles), was the subject of a brief, grim announcement from headquarters. "Notice is hereby given," it ran, "that after due hearing before the Council of Twelve Apostles and upon his own confession [he] has been excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for violation of the Christian law of chastity." Lyman was the twelfth Apostle to be excommunicated since the sect was founded. He was the son of an Apostle, the grandson...
When the index was given its last major overhauling, in the campaign year of 1940, there were cries from many a bigwig statistician, including Cleveland's Brigadier General Leonard P. Ayres, that the updating was for political purposes. This time, outside of the necessary slide-rule juggling to bring related indexes into line, there was no commotion. Most businessmen, ear-deep in war work, now have only an academic regard for FRB's index. They gauge their business prospects by the communiqu...
...Monopoly. The attitude of many a cartel-minded British bigwig, Benton reported, was epitomized by Lord McGowan, chairman of the potent Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., and a director of General Motors, who said naively: "I see no hope for collaboration between British and American business unless the U.S. repeals its Sherman antitrust act. Can we in England look forward to that...
...Government and paid $4,800,000 in taxes, his war business still left his companies $1,888,918 v. $25,514 in 1940. Yet he claims he has consistently been a low-cost producer-and has won fervent kudos, including the Army E, from practically every ordnance bigwig in the book. His Dixwell Corp. claims that it has saved the U.S. Government around $100,000,000 in advising its own and other ordnance plants on ways to cut corners...